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North Korea engaged in ’attention seeking’

Says Biden

AFP, Washington
US Vice President Joseph Biden yesterday dismissed North Korea’s latest series of missile launches, saying the communist regime was engaged in "attention seeking" as it faced increasing isolation.
"Look, this has almost become predictable behaviour." Biden told ABC television. "Some of it seems like almost attention-seeking behaviour."
The comments came after North Korea test-fired seven missiles off its east coast Saturday, according to South Korean officials.
The ballistic missiles • which the North is banned from firing under UN resolutions -- were launched between into the Sea of Japan
It was the biggest salvo of ballistic weaponry since the North fired a long-range Taepodong-2 and six smaller missiles on US Independence Day in 2006.
But Biden said he did not want to give these tests undue attention, but rather focus on moving forward with the policy of further isolating Pyongyang.
"I think our policy has been absolutely correct so far," the vice president stated. "We have succeeded in uniting the most important and critical countries to North Korea on a common path of further isolating North Korea."
Last month, the UN Security Council imposed new sanctions against North Korea, banning all weapons exports from the country and the import of all but small arms
Reacting to North Korea's second underground nuclear test in May, the council also called on all members of the international community to stop and search North Korean ships for weapons.
In a departure from previous practice, the resolution was supported by China and Russia, which are increasingly concerned by Pyongyang’s (belligerent stance.
The vice president noted that the position taken by these two countries represented "a significant turning of the pressure."
"Our policy is to continue to put united pressure from the very countries that North Korea was able to look to before with impunity," Biden said.
He predicted that "there are going to be some very difficult decisions that that regime's going to have to make" in the future.
A US delegation met this week with Chinese officials for talks on implementing UN sanctions imposed on North Korea.
Delegation head Philip Goldberg -- the State Department's point man on coordinating implementation of the sanctions — told reporters last Thursday he had "very good discussions" in Beijing.
"We intend to implement these resolutions with the overall goal of returning to a
path of denuclearisation and nonproliferation on the Korean peninsula." he said.
China has been criticised by the United States in the past for lacking enthusiasm for implementing UN sanctions against North Korea, its neighbour and ally.
Meanwhile, a US State Department official urged North Korea on Saturday not to "aggravate tensions" and described Pyongyang's latest missile tests, apparently timed for the US Independence Day holiday, as "not helpful."
"North Korea should refrain from actions that aggravate tensions and focus on denuclearisation talks and the implementation of its commitments from the September 19, 2005 joint statement," State Department spokesman Karl Duckworth told AFP
Under the 2005 agreement, North Korea promised to give up its nuclear program in exchange for a US pledge not to attack or invade it and to work toward normalized relations.